Editing Game Settings (section)

== Map Type ==
You can select a preset or configure the map generation yourself.<br />
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|colspan="3" style="text-align:center; background:#A5D6A7; border-radius:3px"|<span style="font-size: 26pt;">'''Preset Map Types'''</span><br />
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|style="background:#E0E0E0; border:0px; text-align:center;"|<span style="font-size: 12pt;">'''In-game description'''</span>
|style="background:#E0E0E0; border:0px; text-align:center;"|<span style="font-size: 12pt;">'''Detailed description'''</span>
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|style="background:#F5F5F5; border:0px; text-align:center"|[[File:indus78.png|border|78x78px]]
|style="background:#F5F5F5; border:0px;"|'''Indus'''
<small>''A balanced map with a realistic distribution of food, wood, and materials.''</small>
|style="background:#F5F5F5; border:0px;"|
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|style="background:#E0E0E0; border:0px; text-align:center"|[[File:globulous78.png|border|78x78px]]
|style="background:#E0E0E0; border:0px;"|'''Globulous'''
<small>''A balanced map with two large continents and scattered nearby islands.''</small>
|style="background:#E0E0E0; border:0px;"|
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|style="background:#F5F5F5; border:0px; text-align:center"|[[File:northlands78.png|border|78x78px]]
|style="background:#F5F5F5; border:0px;"|'''Northlands'''
<small>''A single continent full of trees, snow, and wild animals. Hunting will be more important than farming.''</small>
|style="background:#F5F5F5; border:0px;"|
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|style="background:#E0E0E0; border:0px; text-align:center"|[[File:greatlakes78.png|border|78x78px]]
|style="background:#E0E0E0; border:0px;"|'''Great Lakes'''
<small>''A single continent with multiple inland seas. Temperate climate and resource nodes.''</small>
|style="background:#E0E0E0; border:0px;"|
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|style="background:#F5F5F5; border:0px; text-align:center"|[[File:thetorus78.png|border|78x78px]]
|style="background:#F5F5F5; border:0px;"|'''The Torus'''
<small>''A single continent which wraps around the globe. Or, a single landmass with two large inland oceans.''</small>
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|style="background:#E0E0E0; border:0px; text-align:center"|[[File:tropical78.png|border|78x78px]]
|style="background:#E0E0E0; border:0px;"|'''Tropical'''
<small>''A moderately sized continent surrounded by ocean and a few islands, with no colder regions. Food is more plentiful.''</small>
|style="background:#E0E0E0; border:0px;"|
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|style="background:#F5F5F5; border:0px; text-align:center"|[[File:heatwave78.png|border|78x78px]]
|style="background:#F5F5F5; border:0px;"|'''Heatwave'''
''<small>A continents map with much less rainfall. Food is reduced everywhere, and deserts are larger.</small>''
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''(Needs extended description beyond what the game tells us)''

=== Generate New Map ===
These options are available when choosing to configure the parameters of map generation yourself (Which is the default).
* '''Map style'''
** Supercontinent
** Global Archipelago
** World Spine
** Four Continents
** Fractal Coasts
** Great Inland Ocean
** Continental Isthmus
** Twin Continents ''(Default)''
* '''Map Size'''
** Tiny
** Small ''(Default)''
** Medium
** Large
* '''Wrapped Map'''  ''(Enabled by default)'' - If it wraps around into a cylinder or not.
* '''Seed'''
* '''Axial Tilt''' - <span style="color:green; font-weight: bold;">How tilted the planet is. Earth generates tundra in the north/south and desert in the middle. Uranus does the opposite.</span>
** Earth - 23.5 degrees ''(Default)''
** Jupiter - 3.1 degrees
** Mercury - 0.0 degrees
** Uranus - 82.2 degrees
* '''Temperature'''
** Scorching
** Tropical
** Mild ''(Default)''
** Boreal
** Polar
* '''Humidity'''
** Arid
** Semi-arid
** Humid ''(Default)''
** Wet
** Monsoon
* '''Sea Level'''
** Dry
** Shallow
** Average ''(Default)''
** High
** Global Ocean